Rpb4p, a subunit of RNA polymerase II, mediates mRNA export during stress

Molecular Biology of the Cell

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 2744-2755

  Farago, Marganit ^a   Nahari, Tal ^a   Hammel, Christopher ^b   Cole, Charles N ^b   Choder, Mordechai ^a,c  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RNA POLYMERASE II;

ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL GROWTH; CELL VIABILITY; ENZYME SUBUNIT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA TRANSPORT; RPB4P GENE; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRESS; YEAST CELL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, FUNGAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RNA POLYMERASE II; RNA TRANSPORT; RNA, MESSENGER; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 0038107498     PISSN: 10591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E02-11-0740     Document Type: Article

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